Definition of Duchess

Duchess

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.Horace Walpole

The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.Gertrude Stein

My mum and my husband are from Irish backgrounds, so we have a lot of potatoes. Chips, mashed, boiled, new potatoes, I love them all. Even the slightly wonky ones like Duchess potatoes that go up in a little spiral.Jo Brand

On one night of my debut the Prince of Wales, the Princess, and the duchess of London came to see me. They loved me for what I was and what I gave them.Lillie Langtry

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.Samuel Johnson